Software Engineer, Workload Enablement

OpenAI
📍 San Francisco, California, United States 💼 Full time 🕒 Posted July 02, 2026

Job Description

About the Team

The Scaling team is responsible for the architectural and engineering backbone of OpenAI’s infrastructure. We design and deliver advanced systems that support the deployment and operation of cutting-edge AI models. Our work spans system software, networking, platform architecture, fleet-level monitoring, and performance optimization.

About the Role

We’re hiring an SW Engineer to enable production workloads and end-to-end testing on new platforms. This role will include creating new test harnesses and platform stress benchmarks, porting existing inference and training workloads to new, sometimes early-access, systems/hardware, analyzing performance and bottlenecks, and characterizing the end-to-end behavior of new systems (compute, comms, storage, control plane, and failure modes).

Key Responsibilities

  • Port and validate key inference and training workloads on new platforms/SKUs as they arrive; drive correctness, pe...

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    Job Details

    • Location San Francisco, California
    • Job Type Full time
    • Category Computer Occupations
    • Posted Date July 02, 2026
    • Application Deadline August 11, 2026